[sdiy] How Many Oscillators?

[Karl Dalen]

I would also say 4!

Four VCOs are a very neat mid way of usefullness, 
particularely with Lin FM setups, (Dataton 3000 user knows).
Will make very god old rattling clock sounds for instance!
Wich is not as good with 3VCO's due to the need for one
carrier at high frequency simulating old clocks.

I also found four two quadrant mutipliers more useful
then four quadrants in this particular sound patch.

Four of everything is a quite usefull solution by not 
becoming over complex but still giving complex sounds.

KD

 --- Roman <modular at go2.pl> skrev: > 2 VCOs can give lots of possibilities
and charming sound.
> One with wave multiplier, like we've sen here before
> can be really good.
> I use 4 VCOs and it's quite useable. Then I can make FM
> noise, or good chaos patches out of them. Neat thing is
> the ability to tune them all with one knob or CV.
> I say 3-4 VCOs per voice is OK, especially when you think
> about polyphony (you said VCOs per voice right?)
> As a side note, my friend, and future customer I hope,
> wants me to make 7 VCOs so he could make wild unisono
> sounds with them.
> 
> Roman
> 
> ---- Wiadomo¶æ Oryginalna ----
> Od: Michael Boracci 
> Do: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Data: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:51:38 -0400
> Temat: [sdiy] How Many Oscillators?
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
>     I am planning a modular synthesizer and drawing some functional
> diagrams. In the process I am trying to determine how many oscillators
> would be practical. I have seen common synthesizers with two and three
> oscillators each with a few different choices of waveform. 
> 
> In terms of practicality versus sound shaping properties is it
> unrealistic to design around six or even eight oscillators per voice?
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback in terms of existing synthesizers out
> there that I might use as a reference.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael 

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